Integral Gnostic Metaphysics

Although metaphysics is generally defined as a field of Western philosophy, which goes back to Aristotle, I use it in the Neo-Sufi Traditionalist sense to refer to theoretical gnosis. The traditionalist philosopher Sayyed Hossein Nasr has written a very informative essay on this (which also sheds light on a little known aspect of Ayotollah Khomeiny, the Iranian theocrat), called Theoretical Gnosis and Doctrinal Sufism.

For me therefore metaphysics is not a rational endeavour, but a gnostic one. While metaphysics requires reason, that reason has to be guided and informed by gnosis, and thus becomes insight or jnana yoga.

Like Wilber's Integral theory, Integral Gnostic Metaphysics usues a strongly visual or diagrammatic presentation to provide an evolutionary, transformative worldview that includes all perspectives and realities, and rejects the idea of a single fixed reality in favour of a series of stages of transformation.